We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.
Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together. . . and I knew it.
I think it's better to feel good than to look good.
I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated.
I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.
I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.